English: habitational name from Healey near Manchester, named
with Old English heah ‘high’ + leah ‘wood’,
‘clearing’. There are various other places in northern England, for
example in Northumberland and Yorkshire, with the same name and
etymology, and they may also have contributed to the
surname.Variant of Irish Healy.
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